Like Geoffrey Firman, but without the charm, wit, brains, and other socially redeeming qualities.

One need only glance at a picture of the greasy drunken flap of skin that is Christopher Hitchens before we start to agree with Michelle Malkin that we have to do something about those immigration laws. It takes a special kind of hypocrisy for the author of No One Left To Lie To to defend George Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And it takes a really oily scumbag to mount a sneering attack on a bonafide war hero like John Kerry for fighting in an unpopular war. That would be the same war that Iraqi War Cheerleaders like Bush, Cheney, Lott, DeLay, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Divinity student, George Will, hid out from.

So, the junior senator from Massachusetts has finally come up with a winning line. "Vote for me," says John Kerry. "I'm easily fooled." This appears to be the implication of his claim to have been "misled" by the Bush administration in the matter of WMD. And, considering the way in which Democratic Party activists generally portray the president as a fool and an ignoramus, one might as well go the whole distance and suggest a catchy line for the campaign: "Kerry. Duped by a Dope."

Given that Kerry once went all the way to Vietnam under some kind of misapprehension about a war for democracy and launched a political career on the basis of what he finally learned when it was much too late, one might be tempted to discern a pattern here. But that temptation should probably be discarded. The Tonkin Gulf resolution was fabricated out of whole cloth (by a Democratic president, building on the legacy of another JFK from Massachusetts), and not even the most Stalinized of the Vietnamese leadership ever ran a regime, or proposed an ideology, as vile as that of Saddam Hussein. Indeed, Ho Chi Minh in 1945 modeled his declaration of independence on the words of Thomas Jefferson, appealed for American help against France, and might have got it if FDR had lived. Uncle Ho shared in the delusion that there could be an anti-colonial and anti-dictatorial empire. If that is indeed a delusion. …

Basically Hitchens is attacking Kerry and defending Bush by using the Animal House defense: "Hey, you f****d up. You trusted us.".

It's amazing the kind of spew you can wring out of a declining journalist for $200, a bottle of Canadian Club, and a fifteen-year old hooker.